To ward off attacks by terrifying giant hornets, honey bees in Asia speckle the entrances to their hives with the faeces of other animals, a study has found. Researchers in Vietnam were studying the Asian hornet, Vespa soror — cousin to North America’s ‘murder hornets’ — when they noted the bee’s defensive behaviour. The giant … Read more
Faeces transplant cures a 47-year-old man who has a rare ‘auto-brewery’ condition which caused him to get drunk after eating carbs Belgian man was drunk intermittently for two months despite not drinking Doctors at a hospital in Ghent diagnosed him with auto-brewery syndrome This is where the microbes in a person’s gut turn carbohydrates into ethanol It … Read more
Coronavirus first appeared among workers clearing bat faeces from Chinese mineshaft back in 2012 and may not have come from Wuhan market, scientists say Miners were removing bat faeces from the Mojiang mine in Yunnan province Six fell ill with a pneumonia-like illness which resulted in three of them dying Sample tissue from patients with were sent … Read more
Coronavirus first appeared among workers clearing bat faeces from Chinese mineshaft back in 2012 and may not have come from Wuhan market, scientists say Miners were removing bat faeces from the Mojiang mine in Yunnan province Six fell ill with a pneumonia-like illness which resulted in three of them dying Sample tissue from patients with were sent … Read more
Bird poop is said to be good luck, but a new study suggests it is worth much more. A new report calculates that feces from seabirds, like Seagulls and pelicans, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Formally known as guano, the waste is used in commercial fertilizer and nutrients found in the ‘white … Read more
Penguins can fire their faeces out of their rectum with such power they reach more than FOUR FEET away, scientists find Penguins have a high ‘rectal pressure’ that can expel excrement some distance This lets them keep themselves and their nests from getting soiled with guano Experts from Japan calculated just how far Humboldt penguins … Read more
Six-year-old boy drowns in faeces after slipping into latrine pit at his home in Moldova while wearing his older sister’s flip-flops Beniamin Osipciuc disappeared last Tuesday in the small town of Hincesti Local reports said he fell while he was at home with his sister, 14, and brother, 9 His family could not find him … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more